NBA moves All-Star Game from Charlotte
It's being reported basically everywhere, but the NBA is following through on its threat to move the All-Star game out of North Carolina over recent bigoted laws aimed at the LGBTQ community.
Without any movement by state legislators in North Carolina to change newly enacted laws targeted at the LGBT community, the NBA is pulling the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte, league sources told The Vertical.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver had threatened to move All-Star Weekend out of Charlotte unless a discriminatory North Carolina law aimed at the state’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community was changed – and time to do so has run out because of the logistics and planning the NBA needs to run its marquee midseason event, league sources said.
The league is reportedly looking towards New Orleans as a replacement host.
Edit, forgot the link. From Yahoo! Sports
Can we please stop referring to it as anti-LGBT (which it is not). It does not discriminate against gays, lesbians, or bisexual folks in any way. The law targets transgender specifically.
wait, is there supposed to be a /s after your comment? I think you left that out.
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Trisexual...
You are quite clearly not a scientist.
You're talking about the definitions of two words, not scientific facts. "Gender" and "sex" have differing dinotations and connotations in today's English language.
Nobody is stopping Charlotte from seceding from N. Carolina. Make your move son, let's see what you got. Sounds like Charlotte is filled with enough like minded people to make it happen.
North Carolina resident as well, and I agree with everything you're saying. My uneducated perspective on this law is that Governor McCrory is too stubborn to admit that this is a stupid piece of legislation. The NBA is just the latest organization to essentially boycott the state. I absolutely understand and respect this move, whether it's actually a moral thing, or simply a business and PR decision on their part.
Is there some website where I take out a prop bet that Louisiana will enact an identical anti-LGBT law before the game tips off?
Fuck NC.
Ok, why not move all Hornets games then if the law is so bad? New Orleans had to play on OKC after Katrina so it can be done. Heck, move the team to Seattle or Conn (both have WNBA teams).
You've missed it.
Who cares, especially when it is a trivial PR stunt. If the NBA were serious, make Charlotte team leave the state. NBA is hypocritical with their games in China/Mexico. Will NYC not be allowed to have the ASG because the NBA wants to support large sugared drinks?
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It's about business!!!!
Think before you hit send.
You know who has BILLIONS on BILLIONS of people? CHINA!
The NBA isn't worried about a political agenda. They want to GROW THEIR BUSINESS. Period.
Why is that so hard to understand?
This is not the NBA waiving some kind of flag in the air...this is the NBA saying, whoa whoa whoa...I'm not going to let someone put their political agenda and ruin my event. I'm staying out of dodge. I don't want advertisers who DO have a political agenda pulling their money. I don't want people ruining the experience for my fans by protesting them while they try to come to my event.
All of those things are bad for business.
Getting Mexicans or the Chinese to love your sport, buy your jerseys, watch your games, invest in your brand...that is GOOOOOOD for the bottom line.
The NBA isn't stupid...only you folks in this thread who don't understand how billion dollar corps stay billion dollar corps. They want money, a quality fan experiene, positive vibes around their event.
In the words of In Living Color...MO MONEY! MO MONEY! MO MONEY!
Have you ever stopped for a second to think that maybe the NBA feels that it can actually make a difference in America by moving the game from Charlotte, but a similar stance toward China wouldn accomplish absolutely nothing politically?
Besides, if you ban games in countries that have committed human rights violations, you would have to ban all games in America too.
1. Grow the fuck up.
2. It's not just about politics. It's about MONEY as well. They have a business to run. They can't sell a global game with protestors and controversy surrounding their event. Period.
Whether you agree with it or not isn't the fucking point. They're not bouncing around from city to city based on a political agenda. They're doing what they think is good for their business...if that is because of something political, well so be it and fuck you for telling someone what's good for their business. It's not your decision to make to begin with and many people who may agree with the politics would do the EXACT same thing if they felt it was bad for their business.
This pea-brain thinking has to stop.
It's not about being an expert.
It's about using common sense and not acting like everything has to be some big political I'm on the left or the right debate. I'm on the black or the blue debate.
Adam Silver is on the, I want the most green and most positive PR for my league debate while you and your crew are all acting like this is about stance and principle.
The man has a BUSINESS to run. The NBA All Star event is about inviting people to the game, growing the sport, etc.
It's just like the Sterling thing.
There were PLENTY of people who thought he should've kept his team.
But you know what? Donald Sterling WAS BAD FOR BUSINESS. PERIOD. End of discussion. That is fact not fiction...that's not me being an expert or acting high and mighty. That's me stating what we all know is true. He was affecting dollars and cents.
So argue all you want, but no one is saying you have to agree. I sure plenty of people agree/disagree with HB2 and I'm sure plenty of people agree/disagree with Sterling. But the fact is...both were bad looks for someone who's primary goal is to grow his business and make money.
You can argue whether or not you're for/against HB2 elsewhere - and that's cool. But this topic is pretty cut and dry and calling me an expert is you just being salty cause there's no debate to be had.
The ACC commish said they're debating on doing the same thing. Fact is, people may be all for the law...but they're not for losing anything out of their paycheck or a distraction to a big event for their company. That's understandable - and SMART.
Newton last year. He was controversial because he didn't fit the stereotype propagated by many other white quarterbacks. Just like Ali, he was unabashed and theatrical and in many ways, that was tied to his race and the ongoing social discussion about race relations in America.
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Hah.
Oh wait you're serious....?
One of the oldest sayings out there is 'actions speak louder than words.' You can say your not bigoted all you want, but when you then fight to abridge the freedoms of other citizens, what are people supposed to think? I have difficulty reconciling the thoughts of people who cry for personal freedom (which I agree with), then try and take away personal freedom of a small subset of people. Then they have the guile to say they have nothing against that subset of people. It's mind bottling.
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Straw man. Obviously there is, technically speaking, a bathroom for everyone to use.
But do you know what trans people look like? There are plenty of trans men - that is, people who are biologically female, but who identify and present as male - who are indistinguishable in appearance from cis men.
There's a high chance that if this guy, who is a trans man, went into a women's restroom, which he's legally obligated to do in North Carolina, the occupants of that restroom would freak out and/or call the police. This is only my opinion, but I think it's pretty reasonable to say that he doesn't have an option to legally use a bathroom in peace under HB2.
Not necessarily. If a trans person has legally changed their sex, HB2 protects their use of the bathroom of their new identity.
you just keep on believing what you're saying. That was a really popular position in the south about 50 years ago.